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ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: Governing the Resource Boom

The global resources boom of the early 21st century is proving a vexatious challenge for policymakers, businesses and civil society. Surging international prices for energy, food and minerals, intensifying consumption driven by fast-growing developing economies, and emerging concerns about scarcity and ecological sustainability have driven a renewed interest in the governance of natural resources.

All resource governance systems carry distributional impacts -- determining how the benefits and costs of resource extraction and consumption are shared in the global economy -- and the resource boom has seen these governance systems become increasingly contested.

How, therefore, is resource governance being reconstituted in the contemporary world? What political actors are involved in contests over resource governance, what are the key issues at stake in governance contests, and how are have their resolution benefited certain interest groups and not others?

This roundtable will explore how key actors in resource governance, including governments, businesses and civil society groups, are attempting to reshape governance systems in the wake of the resources boom.

Speakers will address issues including the resources-development nexus, environmental politics, the role of business and NGOs, and the international dimensions of resource governance systems.

Participants: Prof Shaun Breslin (Warwick, UK), Prof Peter Vale (University of Johannesburg, SA), Serena Lillywhite (Oxfam, Australia), Sarah Hooper (WA Chamber of Mines and Energy), Prof Ronnie Lipschutz (University of California, SC).

Chair: Dr Jeffrey Wilson (Murdoch University)